Context: GitHub, nowadays the most popular social coding platform, has become the
reference for mining Open Source repositories, a growing research trend aiming at learning …

With over 10 million git repositories, GitHub is becoming one of the most important source of
software artifacts on the Internet. Researchers are starting to mine the information stored in …

With over 10 million git repositories, GitHub is becoming one of the most important sources
of software artifacts on the Internet. Researchers mine the information stored in GitHub's …

Social Media have been gaining in popularity worldwide over the last years at an
increasingly growing rate. The introduction of social media in companies enables a new …

In recent years, the widespread applications of open-source software (OSS) have brought
great convenience for software developers. However, it is always facing unavoidable …

Forking is the creation of a new software repository by copying another repository. Though
forking is controversial in traditional open source software (OSS) community, it is …

The software development community has embraced GitHub as an essential platform for
managing their software projects. GitHub has created efficiencies and helped improve the …

Public managers play a central role in the adoption and smooth implementation of social
media tools in the workplace, with local governments increasingly expecting managers to …

Researchers are currently drawn to study projects hosted on GitHub due to its popularity,
ease of obtaining data, and its distinctive built-in social features. GitHub has been found to …

As the use of “big data” in journalism has become an increasing practice in recent years, its
exercise is no longer limited to newsrooms in Europe and North America. The prevalence of …